Was there not a animation leak on it earlier this year?
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Was there not a animation leak on it earlier this year?
PeakPointMatrix
Member
It was supposed to be a prologue chapter. You only played as Barret until the (assumed) successful rescue of Megaman off of Elysium. And like many things in the Megaman Legends Universe, Barret looked to be inheriting the parallel role of Zero as a sort of rival for Trigger as an ode to older Megaman games, so I wouldn't have really taken issue with his inclusion.
However I do see where the confusion lies for newcomers, but was hopeful that would add to the mystery of "where is Megaman?". It was certainly a unique take to market a game with a mystery as to the whereabouts of the star character.
I believe there was supposed to be more stuff leading up to Mega Man's return, you were going to play as Mega Man in the full game iirc
Serenade_King
Banned
Yes, but it was still being worked on so some things were missing and it was just like first episode. I'm more interested in the game since I prefer how game Beck looks but there hasn't been any new info on it, and with Fuze not releasing their console (the reason they funded Red Ash) and Comcept being bought by Level 5 who knows what has happened with the Red Ash game. :S
On a side note, I really would've thought that Capcom would've done something with Megaman after all this years even if it was a F2P phone game or like Xover 2 or anything... I guess Megaman will only see the light of day with the Capcom cross over games and that's it T_T.
Dead End Irony
Member
It's a shame you Mega Man fans didn't show more interest in this game when it was in development. You probably could've saved it from being canceled...
Sucks for those who wanted to blackout instead of knowing everything about the game.
sixteen-bit
Member
I didn't really care about this when it was canceled, but have since played MML and would have loved to see a sequel.
Serenade_King
Banned
God, for a second I forgot that was the excuse given for the cancelation... it still hurts man T_T
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
I'll never forgive Capcom for failing to live up to their own shitty trial-balloon precedent back then. Petty, untalented business execs simply trashed all the hard work and potential this project had, all because another asshole exec bit off more than he could chew right before leaving the company. Sure, I've moved on to other things, but this still reeks in the back of my mind.
. The "Volnutt" part of Rock matters much more than his "Trigger" part now, too, since the Master System/Elysium plot ends presumably as soon as Roll and Tron get him down from the moon (while rediscovering spaceflight!).
The likeliest story premise for Legends 3 back in the Devroom era, aside from the Casketts and Bonnes retrieving Mega Man, would have involved the reactivation of the Elder System (earthbound prototype to the Master System which factored into the first two games) around the Teomo islands.
At least I got a Legends 2 store poster for my Devroom participation. And I'm pretty sure I signed up for GAF after reading Legends 3 threads here before and after the debacle.
Barrett, at best, would have been Volnutt's friendly male rival, and it seems he was going to have a relationship with at least one of the Casketts (maybe Barrel's long-lost grandson or something). Mega Man Volnutt would have had bigger problems in Teomo.
The backstory's really not too hard to grasp by the end. You missed how
Elysium isn't another planet, but the Legends planet's moon converted into a space colony. Volnutt, aka Trigger, is the potential missing link between Elysium's gynoids/androids (two of which help and hurt your quest in Legends 2, accompanied by their servant droids) and the planet's Carbons (humans with capacity to attach inorganic devices/"parts" beyond regular prosthetics)
The likeliest story premise for Legends 3 back in the Devroom era, aside from the Casketts and Bonnes retrieving Mega Man, would have involved the reactivation of the Elder System (earthbound prototype to the Master System which factored into the first two games) around the Teomo islands.
Seriously...I hope (fruitlessly) that the Capcom board of directors regret leaving money on the table in an era when they were starting to struggle. And they looked so incompetent during the PR fallout from this cancellation, no matter how stupid Inafune looked and appears now. The developers didn't deserve this, and those who went to work on E.X. Troopers (which was going to happen regardless of Legends 3) got shafted again when that game was denied a localization (presumably because of baked text graphics which Capcom wouldn't bother to re-do).
At least I got a Legends 2 store poster for my Devroom participation. And I'm pretty sure I signed up for GAF after reading Legends 3 threads here before and after the debacle.
Remember how the trailer for the dev room said it's okay to not participate too? Hahahahaha *cries inside*
I understand what they were trying to do with Barrett, but I have zero interest in playing the opening episode of a MML game as someone other than MM.
idk I didn't have a problem with it, gets me excited to play as MM again after doing an episode or 2 of another character
PeakPointMatrix
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The other part of the sting was seeing them dump far larger sums of money at the time on games that not only turned out to be total flops, but that sold far less than MML3 would have on the 3DS. Asura's Wrath, Lost Planet 3, Bionic Commando,and even the reanimated corpse of the Legends 3 engine, EX Troopers, all failed miserably.
I guess playing as Zero/Bass/Protoman wasn't your thing then in other Megaman games?
I guess playing as Zero/Bass/Protoman wasn't your thing then in other Megaman games?
There is probably a version of it out there somewhere, with Citra and CFW hopefully we can play it one day
Nope haha. I would be down for optional control of Barrett however.I guess playing as Zero/Bass/Protoman wasn't your thing then in other Megaman games?
That's what I was kinda hoping the full game was going to be, just have the option to swap out